Palo Alto Networks Patches PAN-OS Authenticated RCE Flaw Amid Active Exploitation

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Palo Alto Networks patched CVE-2026-0322 (CVSS 8.6), an actively exploited RCE vulnerability in the PAN-OS management interface, with the company confirming limited exploitation against customer firewalls and releasing IoCs. Security teams running PAN-OS firewalls should treat this as urgent, as management-plane RCE on perimeter devices provides attackers a foothold into the entire protected network.

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